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NATURE
卷 579, 期 7800, 页码 592-+出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2097-z
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- NOMIS Pioneering Research Grant
- L'Oreal-UNESCO-OeAW Austria Fellowship
- OeAW DOC Fellowship
- National Institutes of Health [HG004160]
The yeast E3 ligase Bre1 forms a core-shell condensate with the scaffold protein Lge1, implicating liquid-liquid phase separation as a mechanism in the ubiquitination of histone H2B along gene bodies. The conserved yeast E3 ubiquitin ligase Bre1 and its partner, the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Rad6, monoubiquitinate histone H2B across gene bodies during the transcription cycle(1). Although processive ubiquitination might-in principle-arise from Bre1 and Rad6 travelling with RNA polymerase II2, the mechanism of H2B ubiquitination across genic nucleosomes remains unclear. Here we implicate liquid-liquid phase separation(3) as the underlying mechanism. Biochemical reconstitution shows that Bre1 binds the scaffold protein Lge1, which possesses an intrinsically disordered region that phase-separates via multivalent interactions. The resulting condensates comprise a core of Lge1 encapsulated by an outer catalytic shell of Bre1. This layered liquid recruits Rad6 and the nucleosomal substrate, which accelerates the ubiquitination of H2B. In vivo, the condensate-forming region of Lge1 is required to ubiquitinate H2B in gene bodies beyond the +1 nucleosome. Our data suggest that layered condensates of histone-modifying enzymes generate chromatin-associated 'reaction chambers', with augmented catalytic activity along gene bodies. Equivalent processes may occur in human cells, and cause neurological disease when impaired.
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